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UNFOLDING YOUR LIFE PURPOSE

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Your core values are your internal navigation system. They guide you and lead you. They are system in working order; they are at the core of how you choose and what you decide.

How you behave, how you act. They describe who you are; they are unspoken rules and regulations, terms and conditions by which you are living by.

They aren’t fixed. They serve you. How are you being served?


The saying goes ‘ask the right questions, and you’ll get the right answers.

So that’s where you begin.

In the first part of the workbook there are some key questions to ask yourself.

May I suggest you print this workbook out, spend some time on it, walk away from it, come back to it.

It’s not a race. It’s best to complete over a little time. Sit with the questions.

Who has inspired you?

Why? What qualities do/did they have?

What traits and behaviours do you admire in others?


“It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.”

Have you ever made a decision and it just didn’t feel quite right?

Journal Prompts:

When I remain true to myself life is…

I remember when I said yes and wanted to say no…

The most memorable time when I didn’t feel like me was…

To Do:

Practice saying no three times this week. Remain calm, no error. How did it feel?

What can’t you tolerate?

How do you like to be treated?

What personal boundaries are non negotiable?


What makes you angry?

To form a relationship with another, what must they know about you?

To understand you, others need to know …


Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Where have your values changed over the years? What did you once believe as true but now see differently?

Journal Prompts:

Change is…

If my values guide me, where am I going?

I no longer believe that…

To Do:

If you find yourself ‘up against’ the values of another person. Pause. You don’t have to agree with them, you don’t have to accept or believe them. But allow yourself to listen.

The real voyage of discover consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new

eyes. – Marcel Proust

What does this quote mean to you? How does looking at your world with new eyes differ from looking for new ways?

Journal Prompts:

When I don’t understand I…

10 things that no longer serve me…

I’m not looking through new eyes when…

To Do:

Do something today that is not part of your routine.

What boundaries are negotiable?

What makes you laugh?

What makes you upset?


How would your best friends describe you?

What message do you express to the world?

Why do you get up in the morning?


We all received at birth the invitation to show up, take part fully and express who

we really are. No exclusions.

Many people feel lost and left out. That they are missing the invite or nobody told them.

Journal Prompts:

Write your own ‘Invitation to Life’ that you would give your 5 year old self. What would you say to yourself?

To Do

Include yourself. Where do you need to show up fully today, this week, this month. Visualise yourself showing up fully

What can’t you live without?

What excites you?

What bores you?


You have been given a gift you never have to repay. That gift is life.

If the gift is life, are you opening yours? Is it still wrapped up? Untouched. Unused? There is no error. But do you want to share what you’ve been given?

Journal Prompts:

This is not what I make it, it’s…

This is how I am leaving my gift for others…

What’s in your gift that nobody else has been given?

To Do:

Get a shoe box (or that size). Begin customising a gift you want to give to someone in one year. Fill it with gifts.

What’s your perfect day?


Your Perfect Day.

Who are you with?

What are you doing?

What do you eat?

Where do you go?

Who’s enjoying your company?

Who’s company are you enjoying?

What does the environment look like?

What do you achieve?

How do you feel?

What doesn’t matter?

What are you saying? Who are you saying it to?

How does it start?

How does it end?

Using your answers to the questions as prompts, write down 20 values in the space below (please use the list of core values at the end, if you need help to find the ‘right’ word).

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Follow these next steps:

From the list of words above, choose the ten values that are most important to you. You aren’t giving any ‘up’, you are simply prioritizing.

Why did you choose those ten over the other?

From the list of 10, choose only 5 of the most important.

Why did you choose those five over the other?

What’s your final 3 values after reducing?


The Big Questions

Finding out if you are in alignment with your core values. Answer the following questions about each of your final core values.

What happens when that value isn’t being lived?

Do you live these values daily? Are they always easy to practice?

What makes them challenging?

Do you always practice these values?

CONTD:


The Big Questions

Are you fully living your core values?

Do you ever substitute or let the value slide because it is too hard to practice?

How do you feel when that happens?

What can you change so that these values are a consistent in your life?

How can you practice these values in all areas of your life?

What would your life look like if you lived by these values consistently?


The Big Questions

Are there any blockages you can see to living these values?

What is currently being practiced in your life that needs to be removed?

In your day to day activities do they fit with your value?

What can you do more of?

What can you do less of?

Where are you ‘out of alignment’ with your core values?


The Big Questions

What needs to happen next?

What will happen if nothing changes?

Where are you ‘out of alignment’ with your core values?

What will happen if nothing changes?


What have you learned about you? How do you feel? What do you need now? Write yourself a commitment. When will you review this workbook?


Now what? This little worksheet isn’t the end. It’s just a self-discovery moment. What do you need now? Nip back to the blog to see if there are any articles that can help you. Check out the courses and events there could be something happening soon for you to get your teeth into. Or nip and say hi on Facebook. Let me know if you found this useful or not, and if there is anything I can answer for you, please feel free to message me on Facebook or via the website. Speak soon, Dawn


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Abundance

Acceptance

Accessibility

Accomplishment

Accuracy

Achievement

Acknowledgement

Activeness

Adaptability

Adoration

Adroitness

Adventure

Affection

Affluence

Aggressiveness

Agility

Alertness

Altruism

Ambition

Amusement

Anticipation

Appreciation

Approachability

Articulacy

Assertiveness

Assurance

Attentiveness Attractiveness

Audacity

Availability

Awareness

Awe

Balance

Beauty

Being the best

Belonging

Benevolence

Bliss

Boldness

Bravery

Brilliance

Buoyancy

Calmness

Camaraderie

Candour

Capability

Care

Carefulness

Celebrity

Certainty

Challenge

Charity

Charm

Chastity

Cheerfulness

Clarity

Cleanliness

Clear-mindedness

Cleverness


Closeness

Comfort

Commitment

Compassion

Completion

Composure

Concentration

Confidence

Conformity

Congruency

Connection

Consciousness

Consistency

Contentment

Continuity

Contribution

Control

Conviction

Conviviality

Coolness

Cooperation

Cordiality

Correctness

Courage

Courtesy

Craftiness

Creativity

Credibility

Cunning

Curiosity

Daring

Decisiveness

Decorum

Deference

Delight

Dependability

Depth

Desire

Determination

Devotion

Devoutness

Dexterity

Dignity

Diligence

Direction

Directness

Discipline

Discovery

Discretion

Diversity

Dominance

Dreaming

Drive

Duty

Dynamism

Eagerness

Economy

Ecstasy


Education

Effectiveness

Efficiency

Elation

Elegance

Empathy

Encouragement

Endurance

Energy

Enjoyment

Entertainment

Enthusiasm

Excellence

Excitement

Exhilaration

Expectancy

Expediency

Experience

Expertise

Exploration

Expressiveness

Extravagance

Extroversion

Exuberance

Fairness

Faith

Fame

Family

Fascination

Fashion

Fearlessness

Ferocity

Fidelity

Fierceness

Financial independence

Firmness

Fitness

Flexibility

Flow

Fluency

Focus

Fortitude

Frankness

Freedom

Friendliness

Frugality

Fun

Gallantry

Generosity

Gentility

Giving

Grace

Gratitude

Gregariousness

Growth

Guidance

Happiness

Harmony

Health

Heart


Helpfulness

Heroism Holiness Honesty Honour Hopefulness Hospitality Humility Humour

Hygiene Imagination Impact Impartiality Independence Industry Ingenuity

Inquisitiveness Insightfulness Inspiration Integrity Intelligence Intensity Intimacy Intrepidness

Introversion Intuition

Intuitiveness

Inventiveness Investing Joy Judiciousness Justice Keenness Kindness Knowledge

Leadership Learning Liberation Liberty Liveliness Logic Longevity

Love Loyalty Majesty Making a difference Mastery Maturity Meekness Mellowness

Meticulousness Mindfulness

Modesty

Motivation Mysteriousness Neatness Nerve Obedience Open-mindedness Openness Optimism

Order Organization Originality Outlandishness Outrageousness


Passion

Peace

Perceptiveness

Perfection

Perkiness

Perseverance

Persistence

Persuasiveness

Philanthropy

Piety

Playfulness

Pleasantness

Pleasure

Poise

Polish

Popularity

Potency

Power

Practicality

Pragmatism

Precision

Preparedness

Presence

Privacy

Proactivity

Professionalism

Prosperity

Prudence

Punctuality

Purity

Realism

Reason

Reasonableness

Recognition

Recreation

Refinement

Reflection

Relaxation

Reliability

Religiousness

Resilience

Resolution

Resolve

Resourcefulness

Respect

Rest

Restraint

Reverence

Richness

Rigor

Sacredness

Sacrifice

Passion

Peace

Perceptiveness

Perfection

Perkiness

Perseverance

Persistence

Persuasiveness


Philanthropy

Piety

Playfulness

Pleasantness

Pleasure

Poise

Polish

Popularity

Potency

Power

Practicality

Pragmatism

Precision

Preparedness

Presence

Privacy

Proactivity

Professionalism

Prosperity

Prudence

Punctuality

Purity

Realism

Reason

Reasonableness

Recognition

Recreation

Refinement

Reflection

Relaxation

Reliability

Religiousness

Resilience

Resolution

Resolve

Resourcefulness

Respect

Rest

Restraint

Reverence

Richness

Rigor

Sacredness

Sacrifice

Saintliness

Sanguinity

Satisfaction

Security

Self-control

Selflessness

Self-reliance

Sensitivity

Sensuality

Serenity

Service

Sexuality

Sharing

Shrewdness

Significance

Silence


Silliness

Simplicity

Sincerity

Skilfulness

Solidarity

Solitude

Soundness

Speed

Spirit

Spirituality

Spontaneity

Spunk

Stability

Stealth

Stillness

Strength

Structure

Success

Support

Supremacy

Surprise

Sympathy

Synergy

Teamwork

Temperance

Thankfulness

Thoroughness

Thoughtfulness

Thrift

Tidiness

Timeliness

Traditionalism

Tranquillity

Transcendence

Trust

Trustworthiness

Truth

Understanding

Unflappability

Uniqueness

Unity

Usefulness

Utility

Valour

Variety

Victory

Vigour

Virtue

Vision

Vitality

Vivacity

Warmth

Watchfulness

Wealth

Wilfulness

Willingness

Winning

Wisdom

Wittiness

Wonder

Youthfulness

Zeal


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UNFOLDING YOUR LIFE PURPOSE - dawnbarclay.com · Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. Where have your values changed over the years? What did